Afghanistan

Drone Warfare’s Deadly Civilian Toll: A Very Personal View I was minutes from ordering a drone strike on a Taliban insurgent – until I realised I was watching an Afghan child at play by James Jeffrey I find myself caught between the need to follow the drone debate and the need to avoid unpleasant memories…

Bin Laden Sent this to the White House after Obama’s appearance on Sixties Minutes. Throughout the centuries Kings, Rulers, Tzars and Presidents have felt they had the right to execute those that they deemed to be enemies or just inconscient. One reason the Constitution makes the President get Congressional approval. (though with some Congresses that…

President Obama Speaks on Manning and the Rule of Law By Glenn Greenwald Protesters Thursday interrupted President’s Obama speech at a $5,000/ticket San Francisco fundraiser to demand improved treatment for Bradley Manning. After the speech, one of the protesters, Logan Price, approached Obama and questioned him. Obama’s responses are revealing on multiple levels. First, Obama…

Bradford Manning has only been charged for suspicion of leaking the Iraq and Afghan War logs. One of which was a video showing a US Helicopter mowing down a group of civilans and two reporters, continuing to fire as they laid on the group. For this he has been kept in his cell without any…

The Iraq Debacle: The Legacy of Seven Years of War By Iraq Debacle Coalition We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, mark the August 31st partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq with the following evaluation and recommendations: The U.S. occupation of Iraq continues and the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq can at best be…

McCord told the World Socialist News Web site the implementation of an order for “360 rotational fire nal fire” in 2007 by a battalion commander was a new “SOP” (standard operating procedure). McCord said in an April 2010 interview: “We had a pretty gung-ho commander, who decided that because we were getting hit by IEDs…